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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Silly Sunday: When?!!!

Silly Sunday is the place to come for weekly laughs. It's hosted by Sandee, of Comedy Plus, and it's easy to laugh and link up!Yesterday, Bigger Girl called me on the phone. "Mom, I'm sorry, I know I'm late, but I came here to the church to pick you up after Sunday school, but no one is here!"Um, sweetheart, i said, today is Saturday."What!!!"You lost a day because Friday was a holiday, i said."I'm coming home!" she said in exasperation.This reminds me of a joke.Boudreaux an' Clothile din't learn to read until later in life, but when dey did, dey pride demselves on gettin' de big Sunday paper from N'Awlins ever' Sunday. Trosclair, who ran de news stan' in town, would make sure dey got it deliver to dem ever' week, an dey read it all thru' even if it gen'ly took dem mos' of de week.One Sunday, dey be waitin' for de paper, an de papers from N'Awlins usu'ly get to Trosclair by 9am on de truck, an' he get it out to Boudreaux's house by 10am. By 11, Boudreaux he get mad, an he call Trosclair."Trosclair! Mais, what you be up to! Why don' we got our paper!" Boudreaux say."Boudreaux, it only be Saturday! You paper will be here tomorrow!" Trosclair say."Oh," say Boudreaux. "Dat 'splains why Father Gautreaux din't wan' get up an' say Mass dis mornin'!"

Today is

Abbotsford Berry Beat Festival -- Abbotsford, BC, Canada (enjoy berries at the height of the season, as well as music, clowns, games, a "berried" treasure hunt, and more, through tomorrow)

Birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama / World Tibet Day -- Tibetan Diaspora, to bring awareness to the cause of restoring freedom to Tibet

Build a Scarecrow Day

Buxton Wells Dressing -- Buxton, Derbyshire, England (preserving the 650+ years of traditional "dressing" wells in foliage to thank the patron saint of that well for blessings, now with parades and carnivals; through the 14th)

Buy Yourself a Toy You Always Wanted As a Child Day -- internet sites that list this suggest you then donate it to a child in need

Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) is crowned King of England, 1189Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death, 1348Jan Hus is burned at the stake, 1415Richard III is crowned King of England, 1483Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River, 1484Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII, 1535Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, 1573The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States, 1785In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held, 1854Lyman Reed Blake receives the first patent for a machine to sew the sole of a shoe on to the upper, 1958Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies; the patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog, 1885David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights, 1887Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain, 1892The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship, 1919The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeats the National League, 4–2, 1933The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed, 1939Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse, 1942The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut, 1944Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France, 1986The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years, 2006Exiled Tibetans are banned from celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday as Nepalese authorities fear they will turn into anti-Chinese demonstrations, 2011

Thanks for the joke. Reminds me of my father who went to mass a few days a week after he retired. I remember him coming home one Saturday morning and complaining that the priest must have got his days wrong and thought it was Sunday, the mass had taken so long.